Sep 07, 2005 12:30
They "wanted ... to build a Scandinavian-type welfare system in the Arabian desert, with Iraq’s vast oil wealth to be spent upholding every Iraqi’s right to education, health care, housing, and other social services. 'Social justice is the basis of building society,' the draft declared. All of Iraq’s natural resources would be owned collectively by the Iraqi people. Everyone would have the right to work and the state would be legally bound to provide employment opportunities to everyone. The state will be the Iraqi people’s collective instrument for achieving development."
They were oh so close.
But of course, they were a little too close. That's what our man Paul Bremer is for.